How to nurse sick children : intended especially as a help to the nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children, but containing directions which may be found of service to all who have the charge of the young.

  • West, Charles, 1816-1898.
Date:
1855
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Credit: How to nurse sick children : intended especially as a help to the nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children, but containing directions which may be found of service to all who have the charge of the young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    learned more about each than a nurse possibly can have done, while the mere number of patients seen by him is much greater than can have come under the notice of any nurses, with the exception of the few who have themselves been for years engaged in a hospital. But there are bad doctors sometimes ; doc- The nurse's , ■ •mi -i relation to tors who were idle when young, and are per- the doctor. haps stupid, and obstinate, and self-conceited when old, and there can be no question but that a good nurse is worth a great deal more than a bad doctor. How, then, is a nurse to acquit herself of her duties, so as, whether the doctor be good or bad, to render the greatest possible service to her patient, to promote his recovery to the utmost of her power ? First. Let her constantly have before her mind a sense of the high importance of her own duties ; of the infinite value of human life, of the strict account she must give, not to man, but to God, of the manner in which she performs what she has undertaken, and then all such foolish, paltry feelings as jealousy of the doctor, dislike to him, or desire to show off her own knowledge, will not enter into her heart, or if they do for a mo-